Operations Manager Resume Example
A senior operations leader running three fulfillment sites, ten years in e-commerce distribution, with a Six Sigma Black Belt and an MBA.
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Why it works
- 1
“Fulfillment operations leader, 10 years. Run 3 sites, 410 people and a $31M budget. Took cost per order from $4.10 to $3.22 and on-time ship from 94% to 99.2%. Six Sigma Black Belt.”
Scope first (sites, people, budget), then the two metrics the business runs on, each with a before and after.
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“Run 3 fulfillment sites, 410 staff on 2 shifts, $31M budget, about 38,000 orders a day at peak”
Opens with span of control. Operations is judged on scale before anything else.
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“Cut cost per order from $4.10 to $3.22 in 2 years by slotting fast movers near pack and rebalancing shifts”
Leads with the cost result, then says how. The 'how' is the interview story.
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“OSHA recordable rate fell from 4.8 to 1.9 over 3 years after starting daily near-miss huddles”
Puts a safety number on the page. In warehouses, recordables are part of the job and often left off.
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“Cut mispicks from 0.9% to 0.2% with a Six Sigma project on pick confirmation, saving $280K a year in returns”
Shows the belt doing work: a named project, a defect rate and a dollar figure finance would recognize.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
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Kai Delacroix Senior Operations Manager, Multi-Site E-Commerce Fulfillment Memphis, TN | kai.delacroix@example.com SUMMARY Fulfillment operations leader, 10 years. Run 3 sites, 410 people and a $31M budget. Took cost per order from $4.10 to $3.22 and on-time ship from 94% to 99.2%. Six Sigma Black Belt. EXPERIENCE Senior Operations Manager, Ridgeline Fulfillment | Mar 2021 - Present - Run 3 fulfillment sites, 410 staff on 2 shifts, $31M budget, about 38,000 orders a day at peak - Cut cost per order from $4.10 to $3.22 in 2 years by slotting fast movers near pack and rebalancing shifts - Raised on-time shipment from 94% to 99.2% by moving cutoff planning to hourly labor forecasts - Rebid parcel contracts across 2 carriers, $1.6M a year in savings with no change to delivery times - OSHA recordable rate fell from 4.8 to 1.9 over 3 years after starting daily near-miss huddles Operations Manager, Crescent Home Goods | Jun 2016 - Feb 2021 - Managed a 140-person DC shipping 9,000 SKUs, led the move to Manhattan Active WMS with zero missed ship days - Cut mispicks from 0.9% to 0.2% with a Six Sigma project on pick confirmation, saving $280K a year in returns EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS MBA, University of Memphis, 2019 B.S., Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University, 2013 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (ASQ CSSBB), 2020 SKILLS Manhattan Active WMS, Labor forecasting, Lean and Six Sigma, Carrier negotiation, P&L ownership, OSHA safety programs, SQL, Power BI
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